Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:46:08 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 10:00:38, Johan Hutting wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 07:44:43, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>Chess is primarily tactics, > >Vincent does have a point, to get into a position where you can use those >tactics you require positional knowledge. Any 1600+ rated player can tell you >that :) Vincent was arguing a different point. I agree with him that it would be hard to write a top level program with only 2000 lines of code, but I don't believe it is impossible. I'm pretty sure there is still room for improvement in the area of search. And probably evaluation is secondary to search in 95% of the cases. >My guess is Uri uses a very simple patzer eval with big bonusses for good pieces >along with a fast search. So far it makes movei play good, but if you wish to >improve you'll run into a wall. I think you can write a lot of important eval in 2000 lines. The basic pawn structure and king safety issues can be done in 2000 lines. >>if you have near _optimal_ extensions and near >>_optimal_ pruning rules, then you could probably get those extra plies on your >>opponent and could win WCCC using tactics. > >but, with a bigger eval and good pruning you will still search the promising >lines deeper, right? Of course, but you also see eval hurting at times, no rules without excepton as they say. For instance the trapped bishop codes are often wrong, Bxa2 b3 a5! and maybe we have time to free the bishop here or can simply protect it with Ra8 or Qb2... Not a whole lot of things are easy to staticly evaluate, only simple patterns like isolated double pawns can be relatively safely scored, IMO. >>My guess is that Fritz would still be mighty strong even if they had to limit >>their eval to 2000 lines. > >It would be outplayed by more positional programs and perhaps score some 'lucky' >wins. But that's in 'slow' tempo games, blitz is another matter. With basic eval I wouldn't fear any program that I outsearched two plies in the midgame, endgame is another matter as the tactics is often few and far between. IIRC the author of Ruffian said the secret was in the extensions and pruning rules. :) -S.
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